ChatGPT keeps signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real artists' names

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1450230/chatgpt-keeps-signing-fake-new-yorker-cartoons-with-real-artists-names

www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

I haven’t read the article but what’s described in the headline is abhorerent. Ironically the technology could be used to identifying times when artists’ identities are being misattributed or stolen. Pretty simple for an artist to define their portfolio then have a bot flag anything it finds with their signature on it that they didn’t create themselves.